100 Cases Everyone Should Know
Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
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🗓️ 15 November 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Elizabeth Slattery and Tiffany Bates recap Justice Brett Kavanaugh's speech to the Federalist Society and this week's oral argument in the DACA case. Elizabeth also chats with law professor Josh Blackman about his new book, 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know. Stay tuned for Supreme Trivia. Tiffany's in the hot seat!
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Elizabeth Lattery and I'm Tiffany Bates and welcome to SCOTUS 101, where we break down what's happening at the Supreme Court, what the justices are up to, and other things related to our favorite branch of government. |
| 0:14.8 | This week we're talking about the Federalist Society's National Convention, the DACA oral argument, and we have an interview with law professor |
| 0:21.3 | Josh Blackman about his new book, 100 cases everyone should know. |
| 0:25.8 | So this week, the Federalist Society had its annual gala for 2,300 of our closest friends |
| 0:32.8 | here in Washington. |
| 0:33.9 | Justice Kavanaugh was the keynote speaker. Tiffany and I both got dressed up and we went to the dinner. |
| 0:40.9 | And you can see a picture of us if you follow us on Instagram. Let's go to S 101. |
| 0:45.9 | Yes, we have a new Instagram account. So follow us for hopefully pictures with judges. |
| 0:51.5 | But there were a number of protesters that showed up, as you might expect. There were |
| 0:56.3 | the ladies dressed like the handmaidens. And I saw somebody on Twitter tweeted, oh, I hate |
| 1:02.4 | it when I show up and other people were wearing the same thing as me. They were pretty funny. |
| 1:07.5 | I saw someone had also dressed up as staff and they handed out these fake programs. |
| 1:12.8 | So the Federal Society used to have these pretty elaborate programs for the gala, you know, where everyone is seated. |
| 1:18.1 | But they ditched those several years ago and it's all electronic. So if you're in the know and you've been to these, you know, you knew that it was. And it was like, you know, it had a bunch of horrible stuff about Justice Kavanaugh. |
| 1:31.1 | But I thought it was just a funny thing. |
| 1:33.4 | They also had Christine Blasey Ford's testimony on this huge video screen outside of Union Station, you know, trying to be as obnoxious as they could. |
| 1:44.4 | And some protesters also got in. |
| 1:46.7 | I liked to the dinner itself. |
| 1:48.6 | So they would have had to pay to go to the dinner. |
| 1:52.1 | And it's not cheap. |
| 1:53.0 | No, it's not cheap. |
| 1:54.2 | A couple hundred dollars wait through a three-hour dinner. |
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